The Delicious Treat of Ice Cream is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its digital currency, public floggings, and frequent executions. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 943 million Ice Creams are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."
The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tub of Ice Cream. The average income tax rate is 38.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.
The Ice Creamian economy, worth 42.7 trillion sugars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 45,239 sugars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Business meetings across the country are interrupted by the sound of squeaking whoopee-cushions, the Man in the Plastic Mask has been imprisoned in the Capital Penitentiary, childhood friends of Leader are living it large abroad at the taxpayers' expense, and the roundel of the Ice Creamian Air Force has become an internationally recognized symbol of destruction. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ice Cream's national animal is the ice cream.
Ice Cream is ranked 256,259th in the world and 9,307th in Lazarus for Safest, scoring 15.71 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Ice Cream's influence in Lazarus rose from "Hatchling" to "Newcomer".
- : Ice Cream was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector and Most Valuable International Artwork.
- : Following new legislation in Ice Cream, the roundel of the Ice Creamian Air Force has become an internationally recognized symbol of destruction.
- : Following new legislation in Ice Cream, childhood friends of Leader are living it large abroad at the taxpayers' expense.
- : Following new legislation in Ice Cream, the Man in the Plastic Mask has been imprisoned in the Capital Penitentiary.
- : Following new legislation in Ice Cream, business meetings across the country are interrupted by the sound of squeaking whoopee-cushions.
- : Following new legislation in Ice Cream, the government seizes the property of the recently deceased.
- : Ice Cream was reclassified from "Iron Fist Consumerists" to "Psychotic Dictatorship".
- : Ice Cream was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most World Assembly Endorsements, Most Inclusive, Highest Crime Rates, Most Developed, and Most Advanced Public Education.
- : Following new legislation in Ice Cream, Ice Cream shot first.
